"Why?" This is Messi, this is the Barcelona fans; The high-level, the whole world will ask, what kind of team did Guardiola create? 14 championships in 5 years, no one has ever won the title, and it is difficult to have a king in the future, and in the past five years, all the teams in the world have been thinking about one thing how to beat one of his teams.

"Why go? Why? Messi couldn't sleep all night long, unable to find an answer, and the man who had always been able to give him an answer was calmly packing his bags, he was still there, but his soul was gone.

Hydward looked through some of the information he had just found on the Internet and said, "Messi, I don't know if I'm right, but you can listen to it, and then go pour yourself a glass of milk and get a good night's sleep, so that you will be late tomorrow." ”

The Spanish side did not speak, quietly waiting for the following.

"Messi, maybe you should go back and see that Pep is no longer the ambitious and passionate young coach of Rome's Champions League night. You look at his eyes, tired and weak, the receding hairline is mottled with gray shadows, and the bright and responsive Guardiola who listens to you has long since disappeared with time. ”

Messi's mind went back to November 2011, when Barcelona was about to leave for Milan, and in the last training session before leaving, Pep asked the players to form a circle and tell a secret, a secret that the doctor and his assistant Vilanova had been hiding from the team.

Pep's voice trembled, anxious, and uncomfortable as he spoke, and then he desperately poured water into his mouth with the usual water bottle to prevent himself from losing his voice, but it didn't seem to work. The doctor continued on behalf of the head coach that the team's right-hand man, Mr. Vilanova, had a tumor in his parotid gland that had to be surgically removed, so he could not travel to Italy with the team.

They won Milan for Vilanova, but that was the end of it.

At that time, Barcelona was still invincible, winning, winning all the time, and people always said: life is impermanent, the world is unpredictable. Often when you feel like you can do anything, life teaches you some lessons, and then you remember that frustration is also part of life.

The team lost the game in an ugly way in the league, and the cold was especially cold in the empty stadium. Real Madrid beat local rivals Atletico Madrid at home to further extend the gap to five points, and Jose Mourinho's side were hungry and desperate to put an end to Pep Guardiola's era, and he looked at Cristiano opposite him and felt that the brother opposite him was unstoppable.

On Barcelona's flight home, the seat next to Guardiola was empty, and no one dared to sit there, and that was the place that belonged to Vilanova. The team's head coach was lonely, depressed, and silent, as if a sharp sword had pierced his body, and his life force continued to leak through that hole.

Pep Guardiola began to carry the team on his shoulders alone, his face was getting thinner, his body was a little rickety, and his whole person was getting old. Messi wanted to comfort his coach who encouraged him, but he was annoyed that he was helpless.

Messi's fists clenched, and he remembered the first time the two had a meal, and Pep told him his plans, excitedly drawing a blueprint for the future.

"No one can sit permanently in that position." Hydward's voice pulled Messi's thoughts back from the distant past.

'There will come a time when the manager will lose his players, his words will become inconsequential, no one can control the surroundings, the media, the chairman, the TV content, the former manager, etc.' Hydward is talking about his future self, and perhaps one day, he will exhaust all his energy, leave a monument, and then hang it up.

'Last Christmas, Pep Guardiola made 16 changes to his line-up, big and small, and the 3-4-3 formation no longer worked as planned, and he may occasionally ask himself if his players are still as obedient to him as they have been in the past few years, because it is becoming more and more difficult to control the team, so he is taking a huge risk to the starting line-up. Alves separated from his wife in the summer, the holidays were overdue, and the season was still going on, so Pep asked him to go home and calm down, which was the first time in any big team. Hydward gave a simple example and took out the news that had already been confirmed.

"It's a problem to look at a nonchalant face in a game, when someone is angry when they don't deserve to start, and that's a problem that can be seen everywhere in any club in the world, and the more time goes on, the more often it happens. It's just that every conflict, even the most trivial and boring, corrodes the carefully constructed bridge between the manager and the players. ”

Messi took a carton of milk from the refrigerator in the living room, poured himself a large glass, and took a sip with milk foam on his lips.

"Will your team do the same?" He asked curiously.

"Of course, Messi, it's just a matter of time, few feelings will not deteriorate for more than ten years."

Standing in the position of the head coach, Hydward briefly described Guardiola's predicament, and more or less solved Messi.

"Is there any difference between you coaching the team and Barcelona coaching?"

No wonder Messi often cares about and covers Icardi, these two people are thinking personalities, not the same kind of people who don't enter the door.

Edward glanced at the time on his watch, pondered for a few minutes, and said: "As the manager of Barcelona, you can only spend 30% of your energy on the construction of the team itself, and the remaining 70% of your energy can be used to deal with the burden of a huge organization and a complicated system. ”

In fact, it is not only the coach of Barcelona that is so, any giant club in the world more or less has to have the manager devote a large part of his energy to deal with trivial matters off the field, which is out of Spain, especially in Arsenal in north London, when the candy merchant David Dunn waved goodbye, Clark, who was known as richer than Abou, took office, Arsène. Arsene Wenger took a job as one of the hardest professional managers in the world. The sadness and bitterness in it are difficult to support alone, and the fans don't understand, only they know.

Hydward stretched and rubbed his temples, Pep was "tired", and so was he, so Hydward was not prepared to continue the conversation with Messi.

He said: "Messi, one last piece of advice, listen to Pep, don't get involved in the struggle at the top, Pep can talk casually in front of Laporta and say whatever he wants, but he will never do that with Russell." Pep Guardiola supports Laporta because it was the chairman who allowed him to join the Camp Nou, he was born into the faction of the previous president, you are different, wait until the storm is over to ask for a substantial contract renewal bonus, there is nothing polite to Russell. ”

Coaches often have to train their hearts to the point of invulnerability, and after a few years they take that heart out to clean the players, or clean themselves, and Pep chooses the latter, for whatever reason.